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Hodgson Academy Summer Break Work

GCSE Product Design

Mini Plant Pot DesignThe purpose of this project is to build on your:

Sketching and Technical Drawing Skills

Paper/Card Making Skills

CAD/CAM Skills

Have you noticed since lockdown started that people are becoming more self sufficient?

A lot of people having been cooking at home rather than buying ready meals from a shop. Some have been baking bread and a lot of shops ran out of strong bread flour! Some have been sewing scrubs and masks for hospital staff!

With this in mind, the Product Design task for technology is going to be about designing a mini plant pot. You will be designing and drawing a pot using traditional paper-based design techniques to visualise a design.

I would like you to start by doing some research into growing things yourself. What would you grow out of choice? Please produce a mood board of ideas based on things you may have grown from seeds, what you could grow on your kitchen windowsill, is it a herb/ a vegetable or fruit or maybe something like a cactus? You need to remember that it is a mini plant pot, so it is only going to be able to contain a seedling or small plant.

You can draw mini plant pots with plants in, take photos at a garden centre, sketch plant pot shapes and add colour and annotation (notes). Use crating to help you.

Remember to add lots of detail to your mood board. Ideas from magazines, photos, drawings and lots of written information (annotation).

Sketches are a seriesof quick drawings toexperiment with ideas!

Remember using crating in year 7 and 8, where youproduced 'boxes' and lines in order to build up a shape. Practice this technique to sketch your plant pot ideas.

TASK: Produce a page of ideas for your plant pot. Sketch out in 2D and 3D.

Remember to use tone, a light source to show shadow and give it more of a 3D look, rendering and fine lining using a black pen (any will do).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRPL2Xf5oSKhaJLjNQitYyAbRXOFm-dMp

Scan the below QR Codes or type the URL’s into your web browser to access a number of videos to help you with the techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRPL2Xf5oSKj76EUvBMb01qbOJ1xBJAHU

Watch the 1 Point and 2 Point Perspective Videos on the links/QR Codes and have a go.

One point perspective images draw the viewer along the depth lines to the vanishing point.

Two point perspective relies on two vanishing points, giving a more realistic look to your drawings.

Draw up your plant pot in 1 or/and 2 Point Perspective.

https://youtu.be/Uq7cTEm80h0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5TQzfq_1Ys&fea

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CAD (Computer Aided Design) is commonplace in Design Industry, so we will be working with lots of different programs over the next three years. You have already had experience working with 2D CAD (2D Design V2), so now you are going to have a go at 3D CAD.

You are going to look at a program called OnShape, which is an online web based piece of software that is totally free of charge. You will need to sign up, using the instructions on the next page.

You will then experiment with the tools and functions to draw up your design. If you complete this over the summer we will 3D Print your design when we return in September.

• Make a mock up of your of your flowerpot design out of cardboard, paper or any other household recycling to show your concept and take a photograph.

• Growing challenge – plant something into your plant pot, such as herbs or cress, and take photo’s to share in September.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRPL2Xf5oSKiza86EiuMUUrjprm2RXjNX

There are a series of videos on YouTube on how to get started and use all the tools and functions in OnShape.

Name your documentCreate a Document

The Onshape interface

Preferences

The Tool bar

3D Planes

Orientation

“Dice”

Navigation bar

Setting Preferences Setting units

Creating a Sketch

1. First thing required is to select a sketch plane as per the message in the centre2. It is easier if you click on the dice to select the face you want to come to the front as a flat plane3. Highlight a plane by moving the mouse over it and it will turn orange around the edges

1. There will now be a bounding box around the plane, labelled sketch 12. In the sketch box it shows the sketch plane selected in this case “front”3. Now we can draw on the sketch using the drawing tools in the toolbar

Sketching tools in more detail

Line Rectangle Circle

3D tools in more detail - Extrude

1. Select extrude tool2. Note it automatically highlights “New” in blue as in this case there are no other 3D

shapes on the document3. Select the sketch region to extrude for instance the face of the circle4. See it is now highlighted

3D tools in more detail - Extrude

1. Choose a depth, in this case 25mm2. Rotate the plane by dragging the right mouse to see the effect3. You can alter the depth by dragging the white arow4. When Happy click the green tick

1. Choose Revolve tool2. Note that it always selects new as the first option (Green box)3. Then select the face you want to revolve (Blue box) in this case the square highlighted orange

3D tools in more detail - Revolve

3D tools in more detail - Revolve1. Select the revolve axis –

1. option select a line on the object to revolve around if there is one2. Use Mate connector tool (blue box) and then select the origin, onshape will select a

suitable vertex of the origin, in this case the Z axis3. Click the symbol next to the word “Mate connector” (Small Purple box) will expand a

menu for the Mate, in this case showing “Rotate about Z”

1. Mate connector is shown on the 3D view (box) showing the plane of the revolve and the blue line showing the centre of revolve